Sun Kissed Mountaintop

[kundalini]

5 shot hand held with Olympus PEN EP3 & Panasonic 7-14mm lens. Not much experience with HDR, but starting to try a bit more. Suggestions and comments on post processing appreciated.

Thanks for looking.

 

[molested_cow]

I don't know, doesn't seem that the "HDR" did it's job. How many brackets and what's the stop gap? Also, which software?

I find that simply tone mapping a single RAW can do wonders in photomatix is the lighting is not too bad. Even the really bad ones, the result is usually surprisingly good.

 

[SlickSalmon]

Nice -- good contrast without excessive saturation. The white balance is a little off, because the blues are blocked on the bottom end. With that corrected, the image actually accepts a little more saturation. I also like to burn the upper corners on shots like these. Other than that, the other thing that pops out is that the image looks a little over-sharpened. One nice trick with these kinds of 'big sky' photos is to select out the sky and only sharpen the trees.